Gang violence in Sweden has gotten particularly bad in the weeks after Christmas. Today, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s government reiterated its plan against gang violence.
STOCKHOLM Association leader by Ulf Kristersson the three-party right-wing government and its supporting Sweden Democrats have been in power for 100 days.
In the last month, clashes between gangs have become almost daily. Since Christmas Day, there have been 16 shooting incidents and 11 explosions in the Stockholm area.
The police have told you (you will switch to another service) in the past, that bombs are often homemade, but now gangs also have hand grenades.
It takes time to prepare the tightenings
The leaders of the government coalition assured in the morning that the government now intends to curb the violence with even more severe punishments, but also, for example, by intensifying the exchange of information between the police and social services.
The proposed reforms are familiar from the autumn election campaign and From the Tidö contract (you switch to another service)which the governing parties and the Sweden Democrats signed after the elections.
Many of the reforms require investigation and new legislation. For example, the report on intensifying the exchange of information between the police and social services is scheduled to be completed at the end of October.
Investigation work is also underway on, for example, the expansion of police rights in particularly troubled areas. The government ghaluaa gives the police t the right to perform a body search without suspicion of a crime.
The police are also planning to have more extensive rights to listen to phone calls for preventive purposes. The government also wants to make deportation easier and toughen prison sentences for gang crime. For example, attracting minors to gangs is punishable by four years in prison.
For example, the social measure intends to narrow the right of parents to refuse the support measures offered to the child.
In the video, research doctor Markus Kaakinen from the Academy of Finland explains how the cycle of revenge fuels violence between criminal gangs.